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WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW
USA 2023 - DCP - 92 minutes, in English
Director: Catie Foertsch
Print Courtesy: Twin Seas Media
Powerful and damning, director Catie Foertsch’s documentary, told largely in interviews with service members who were there, is about the cost and consequences of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the tragedy of sending young men and women to get injured and die in wars America didn’t need to fight, with the devastation of two countries and untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans as well. Like so many others, the veterans in this film—including two eloquent Mainers—suffered physical and mental injuries that will be lifelong. They also suffered moral injury from what they saw and what they did. Their injuries are compounded by the questions they can’t stop asking: Why were they lied to about the reasons for these wars? What was all the killing and destruction for? What’s to stop it from happening again? —KE
New England Premiere
Saturday, July 8 12:20PM | MFC 3
Monday, July 10 3:40PM | MFC 2
